Some videos I posted this year

 Here are some of the videos I posted this past year....

They are in order from Oldest to newest, you can also check my Philately playlist for the older videos as well: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkMdv3hONuf0ck0yFsMuD2xzkclcp3BQa

Slovenia S.H.S and Croatian S.H.S stamps on pieces

Germany 1948 Bizone stamps on cover

Covers with 1850/60s Bavarian stamps

Bosnia and Hercegovina 1906 perforated, imperforated and obliterated sets

See also here for images.... http://www.stampio.org/2019/01/the-revenge-of-yugoslavia-on-bosnian.html

Bosnia and Herzegovina stamps that arrived today, also showing what I already had in my collection

A look at Bosnia 1913 Newspaper stamps...Girl in Bosnian Costume (Mädchen in bosnischer Tracht)

Red Cross/Red Crescent First Day Covers

Swiss airmail covers including Aaurau and Helicopter mail

Austria 1863-1880 mercury newspaper stamps and newspaper tax stamps

Epirus Chimarra Issue 1914 Possibly forgeries

Germany 1875 until about 1990s stamp accumulation

Bayern/Bavaria special catalog and Bavarian Wagon Wheel (Mühlradstempel) cancels on stamps

First day covers from the Netherlands

Books: European Stamp Issues and the 1st/2nd World War, Chainbreakers: Stamps of Slovenia 1919/21

Stamps on envelopes that I received in the mail

Belgian collection on Vario pages part 1

Belgian collection on Vario pages part 2

First look at the new Netherlands 2024 NVPH stamp special catalog

Netherlands Doorlopers.. stamps where the design continues on the next stamp

Quick video about the Sakura stamp catalog (原色日本切手図鑑) I purchased a few weeks ago One thing I noticed, they have different sections for stamps... even more so than Scott :-(

Added to my collection in April 2023

This will just be a post with all the stamps that I added to my collections in April 2023

April 2nd

Germany Bizone 1948 buildings on cover

I always liked this series.. when I saw this cover with 12 of the buildings stamps I had to have it  :-)

You can also see the video I made here

April 10th

West Germany 1953 MiNr 173/176

Beautiful engraving on these stamps

Germany 1946 MiNr Block 12B

The perforated stamps you can find everywhere.. this block is a bit rarer

April 20th

Bosnia 1906 series  imperforated 

I have the regular series, the 'revenge' series as well as the SHS overprints. There are also many different perforations including interesting compound perforations.

I made a video as well where I show some of these

Switzerland 1917 Pro Juventute 

Michel catalog MiNr 133/135.  Scott catalog B7/B9

April 27

Germany 1872 30 Groschen

For once the catalog number are the same number 13 in both Scott and Michel

Nice mint hinged stamp

Switzerland 1916 Pro Juventute 

Michel catalog MiNr 130/132.  Scott catalog B4/B6

Switzerland 1951 LUNABA sheet

Michel block number 14, Scott B206

Added to my collection in January 2023

 This will just be a post with all the stamps that I added to my collections in January 2023

January 1st

Netherlands 1852 King William III 5 cent pair

 

The first stamps issued in the the Netherlands in 1852. A nice pair. There are 6 different plates of this stamp.. once I figure out which plate this is, I will add it here

Netherlands 1907 Postage Due set 

Overprints on the M. A. de Ruyter set of 1907. There are 2 types of the fraction stamps

Netherlands Juliana and Number stamps from Booklets

These stamps are from several booklets

January 23

Switzerland 1923 airmail stamps

Michel number 179/184. I think these are real beauties....

Europa CEPT various years

These will go towards completing my Europa CEPT collection from 1956-2000, still have a long way to go......

Austria 30  year anniversary of Carinthian plebiscite

1950 Michel numbers 952/954, Scott number B269/B271

Switzerland 1915/1921 Tell tête-bêche pairs

Michel 138 type II, 158, 160a 

I love tête-bêche pairs... of course the real nice ones to have are the French Ceres and Napoleon ones

Netherlands 1952 Stamp Centenary of Dutch Postage 

Scott# 336-39 NVPH 592/595

There are 2 sets with identical stamps but in different colors. There were only 205,700 sets issued of the 4 pictured here. The ones in different colors were issued by the millions... 242 million for the 2 cent stamp (in violet color instead of brown)

Netherlands 1872 King William III 2.5 Guilders

NVPH number 29, Scott number 33. This is the first 2 color stamps issued in the Netherlands

Netherlands 1893 Princess Wilhelmina 2.5 Guilders

NVPH number 48, Scott number 53

And here they are side by side, father and daughter  :-)

Netherlands 1920 Queen Wilhelmina 10 guilders surcharged with 250 cents

NVPH number 105, Scott number 105... look at that.... the same catalog number

Added to my collection December 2022

This will just be a post with all the stamps that I added to my collections in December 2022

December 7th

A whole bunch of stamps from the Netherlands

I have a fair number of those already used.. missing a few MNH as well as missing them completely

Netherlands 1973 ships

I just want to call out this beautiful set

Netherlands Ships Year 1973 NVPH catalog numbers 1026/1029

December 22nd

Netherlands 1875 William III to Heidelberg cover

The envelope is smaller than I expected

Switzerland 1854 Strubel Type Sitting Helvetia

I love these stamps... however there are up to 7 different printings, a few different types of papers, and also different colored threads.  I will just assume these are the less expensive Bern printing ones

Added to my collection November 2022

 This will just be a post with all the stamps that I added to my collections in November 2022

November 7th

Cover from Belgium....

Got a bunch of stamps in this envelope (see for stamps further below)

Germany booklet pane Michel H-BI 29A

I love the Germania series that were issued before WW I.

Liechtenstein Europa CEPT 1960 MiNr 398

Just an addition to my Europa CEPT collection. Wondering why they didn't do a common design stamp here?

Switzerland 1955 Stamp Exhibition Lausanne Souvenir Sheet 

Michel Block 15, Scott 352a. This sheet does not exist perforated.

Netherlands bunch of MNH stamps from the 70s - 90s

I have most of these.. but was missing about 10 or so in my collection, the rest I will sell or trade. Some of these might end up in some of my thematic collections as well (looking at the stamp on stamp ones)

November 8th

Netherlands 1913 King William II

NVPH catalog number 99. Just missing the 10 Guilder one now from this set

Europa CEPT blocks and mini sheets

Just a few Europa CEPT issues to be added to my collection. Stamps from Yugoslavia, Finland, Turkey and Turkish Cyprus

Netherlands International Cour de Justice set

Issued in 1989-1994, NVPH catalog number 44/58

November 17th

Got 3 stamp lots in the mail today

That is a good amount of stamps on both of those envelopes...

Slovenia SHS 1919 Chain breakers horizontally and vertically double perforations

I always loved these chain breakers stamps.....

Slovenia SHS 1919 Chain breakers perforation error

Danzig Cork cancellations

Got a bunch of these, this is the first time I have seen this cancellation on Danzig stamps. If you searchon Ebay for korkstempel, you will find more examples...

Netherlands 1941 vliegende duif (flying dove) combinations

NVPH catalog numbers 379a/379d

Switzerland 1939 National exposition all 3 languages

Tree and crossbow, nice clean design, visually very pleasing

Michel catalog number 344/355. Scott catalog number 256/267

November 30th

Slovenia SHS 1919 Chain breakers partially imperforated stamps

Slovenia SHS 1919 Chain breakers  double horizontal perforation

Slovenia SHS 1919 Chain breakers  double vertical perforation

Slovenia SHS 1920 King Peter I Imperforated

Added to my collection October 2022

This will just be a post with all the stamps that I added to my collections in October 2022

October 2nd

Got a bunch of stamps in this envelope (see for stamps further below)

 

Notice the "Please Do Not Bend" part? Well the person working for USPS did not notice it and tried to make it fit.... Luckily no stamps were damaged. Also I was wondering how they can still use non Euro denominated stamps to mail these out?

Switzerland 1852 Michel no 12

Michel number 12, Scott number 12 as well

Not the best margins unfortunately…  Hopefully in the future I will get a cleaner specimen

Austria MNH stamps and some used sheets

Just filling in gaps in my collection  :-)

Switzerland 1999 125 year UPU anniversary

This is a pretty cool design

Monaco 1983 Europa CEPT mini sheet

This sheet can go in a Monaco collection as well as in a Balloon, Space or Europa CEPT thematic collection 

Switzerland Vignette from year album/yearbook 1999 

October 7th

Germany 1926 airmail stamps 

Michel 378/84 Scott C27/34... I always liked this set

October 25th

Netherlands 1967 Amphilex sheets

I have been eyeing these for a while now and they are finally part of my collection

On the sheets are stamps from the first 3 issues

Europa CEPT mini sheets and booklets

Just adding these to complete at least the common issues... still have ways to go

French Colonies Peace And Commerce 1877

I love these stamps from France, I loved them even more when they are imperforated like they were issued for the French Colonies

Michel catalog number 28, Scott catalog number 32

Belgian Telephone tete beche gutter pair stamps

These can't be found in the Michel or Scott catalogs

Luckily I have a buddy that has the Belgian COB catalog

Looks like catalog number TE29/TE32.. 

October 28th

Swiss stamps from 1989 -1999

Didn't have most of these... so this is a good percentage of stamps that I am adding to my Switzerland collection